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an update gallery/video and post

March 3rd, 2008

First off, there are new videos in the gallery… and have been for a week or so now. I know it’s been forever since there were any of those put up.

Also-I just finished uploading 88 photos of the kids.

This post, except for the above has been on going for over a week.. so it might refer to yesterday, ect.. and really not have been yesterday but actually two Saturdays ago or something…. but I am going to bed!

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It’s amazing what a difference a nights sleep can make. James changed overnight, literally in the last week or so.

He started to sign “eat”.
He waved bye-bye to Daddy.
He also claps

The other night, he signed eat while sitting between Mom & Dad, crawled to Mommy put his head on my leg and waved bye-bye to Daddy when he got there. Now I doubt he was aware of his actions as being that exactally, maybe he was. Either way, I say it’s wonderful.

He has also learnt how to “really” crawl. He crawled to Daddy when he got home the other night. He was just sitting in the toys, saw him and then went for him. He knows how to go where he wants if he wants to.

He also pulls up on everything. He is standing probably 75-80% of his playing hours now. He also is cruising the furniture or toys or whatever he’s standing next to. The other day I watched him make his way back and forth between a toy and the couch, and then down the couch side to play with the stuff on the end table and back to the end again.

Another night Daddy saw him go back and forth between his toy and the couch several times. He is getting very brave with letting go too with both hands.

Evelyn is so sweet! She’s a snuggle bug lately. She’s been giving nice wet kisses to Daddy when he gets home. I think I got my first one finally the other night too, she snuggles frequently.

Poor Evelyn is trying to get going somewhere, but has not yet. James noticed that she has stopped rocking on all fours lately. She did a few times when we put her up though, she has the hand co-ordination down first whereas James had feet first. She’s been wanting our help to stand all the time, perhaps she’ll just go straight to standing. I noticed yesterday she’s trying to stand from a sitting position a lot, with her two feet together in front of her so it’s not working out the best for her.

Evelyn I think is also clapping a bit too.

Trying some ‘real’ foods with the kids. Banana, avacado, toast, macaroni. After we see the Dr again, I think we’ll introduce yogurt and cheese and such things, and meats that arent’ in baby food. We’ll see… depends on what he says. Oh! I also made them pancakes that Gerber has on their box and James seems to enjoy them more than Evelyn… but they both eat some.

James drinks pretty much whatever you put in his sippy cup, right up! Evelyn drinks a little but never finishes hers. She’s been refusing dinner lately too, wanting to feed herself. Next plan of action is to give them a ‘real’ cup in the bathtub.

Evelyn is still toothless and James has his two yet. I am not sure when the next ones (the top middle four) are due to come in on average. I think she might be getting close though… still no tell-tale slit that I can confirm though. She gets ornry if I try to see her gums.

The kids are as of today offically alive longer on the outside than on the inside (Sunday the 24th) Yesterday marked the equal point of when I gave birth to them, with how long they’ve been born. *sigh*

The kids went to friends house on Saturday night so that James and I could go out for the first time together without the kids since they were born. We went to an event thru the Multiples Club, for two hours. They did well, cried when they got there but they assured as it was brief and even said that they stopped when they were put next to each other and *aww* held hands then. They said they’d watch them anytime again, so it must have gone well enough to want to have them again. We have a huge list of people wanting to watch the kids, so this was a teeny step towards more Mommy-Daddy time here and there.

Packed away around half of the 3-6 month old clothes for the kids this past week. They still fit a lot of things, but most all the sleepers no longer fit, and we’d been using 6 month ones here and there. Tried the 9 month ones and I am not sure how long they’ll work either. But the clothes are Ok yet, though we have put them in some 9 month stuff here and there.

The kids are starting to play together more. James has always been interested in Evelyn but she tended to want to do things by herself or would get easily upset when he’d touch her. But they are found several times a day playing together with the same toy (though this sometimes leads to a scream or two, also) and giggling at each other. Evelyn likes when James shakes a blanket in front of her.

They both have learnt how to play peek a boo with us. We still put the blanket on their face, but they both know how to pull it down and play. They learnt super fast! I think it took 3 times of putting it on James head and my pulling it down and the next time I went to pull on it and he’d already gotten it down. James did it with Evelyn then and she started right away too, she pulls slowly though, it’s CUTE!

James has started to whisper Dada again, he did it for the longest time, then stopped and only said it in his normal voice. He’s a squealer though, he likes to play with the different tones of his voice. Evelyn has started to growl again too, she did it way back when she was like 2 months old and then not again. She is really starting to expirement with her voice too, she likes to involve her tounge with the expirmentation though.

They both say Dadda and Momma and *I* think they know who is who now.

James has started (not sure when) to sleep on his belly, with his bum up in the air. I caught him doing it the other night when we laid him down when we got back from going out without them and he stayed asleep all the way home, and thru getting his snowsuit off… but Evelyn didn’t, plus she hadn’t taken a bottle and needed to eat whereas he had. Anyhow, when I went to lay down Evelyn he was there all cute I had to call James in to see him. The last two nights when I laid him down he’s rolled right over.

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